California psychiatric hospitals close beds under new nursing staffing rules
Hospital executives in California say new staffing standards intended to make psychiatric hospitals safer for patients are having…
South Bay job growth jumps, state gains a bit, Bay Area hiring is flat
The South Bay added more jobs than any other California metro area in May, extending an 11-month growth…
East Bay innovator of pulse oximeter dies at age 90
Jack Lloyd, the prolific East Bay engineer, entrepreneur and inventor, whose innovations include making the pulse oximeter, a…
State health officials probe e-coli outbreak linked to Kebab Shop
SAN JOSE — State health authorities are investigating an E. coli outbreak linked to The Kebab Shop restaurant…
Don’t be misled on cost of single-payer healthcare
Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor. Don’t be misled…
Real estate firm pays $60 million-plus for East Bay senior care sites
Rosewood Post Acute located at 1911 Oak Park Boulevard in Pleasant Hill. (Google Maps) Two East Bay senior healthcare…
New legislation proposes smartphone ban in all California school
A statewide ban on students using cellphones in school could come as early as next summer under newly…
Bay Area and California job markets are far stronger than first thought
The Bay Area didn’t lose jobs in 2025 after all. While the Bay Area job market may have…
Moving fast, breaking the world. AI risks shattering our shared reality.
Artificial intelligence is here: writing paragraphs, generating images, mimicking voices, shaping what billions of people see each day,…
Kaiser Permanente strike to end
The largest open-ended strike of health care professionals in U.S. history will end Tuesday, without workers winning on…
California has one of the nation’s weakest job markets
California’s booming economy is one of the world’s largest, but a peek behind the curtain exposes the forbidding…
California job-based health insurance costs outpace wages, inflation
The cost of employer-sponsored health insurance in California rose at twice the pace of inflation over the past…